Rasmr tells the full story of how he slammed the Kimchi coin 2 minutes after launch with zero research “I saw fomo notifications for the OG Kimchi coin getting sold rapidly by people I follow. Prod Chris, a Catalyst member, was dumping it, and I was like what’s going on. I opened the chart, it’s down 80% on one red candle. I go into my Discord asking what’s happening, and they’re like, new Kimchi wallet. I’m like what? I @ everyone, join VC, I’m fucking scared, I’m screaming, where’s the ticker, scan the coin. They scan it and I slam it. That’s literally what happened.” “I didn’t check shit, I slammed it with no info. The risk I was taking is I bought a 2 minute old coin. I didn’t check the bundle, didn’t check the Bubblemaps, I slammed $20k in and it could have easily gone to zero. People call it insider trading, but the odds wouldn’t be equal because other users need time to check Bubblemaps. I didn’t check any of that, that’s my risk. fomo is the discovery tool.”

Ran Neuner reveals how he processes a loss before letting it go “When you have a bad experience, the first thing you have to do is mourn the loss. You chisel at whatever happened from every angle. Why didn’t I do this, I’m so stupid, who should I have listened to. You be angry at yourself and hate yourself for doing it, until you’ve chiseled the rock and there’s no more rock.” “That’s the point where you let go of the past. You take the learnings but you can’t let it keep weighing you down, otherwise you don’t have a future. The difference between those who make it and stay at the top and those who don’t is how quickly you can get up and keep fighting.”

Rasmr uses standard deviations to explain to his chat he’s better looking than them "Someone just said I inject estrogen. Bro, if you’re watching this, I’m better looking than you, dumbass. I’m better looking than 95% of males, so if you’re watching this that means there’s a 95% chance I’m better looking than you.” “That’s just a fact. I’m just looking at the standard deviations of this shit.”

Threadguy goes cryptic about the spooks and cuts himself off before he loses his platform “I’m going to say a name and you tell me if it’s familiar. What does the name Hunter Beast mean to you? Does that name mean anything to anybody? Because I’ll tell you what he means to me. He means a string of knowledge. He connected me to a part of the world that I did not know existed. The spooks. Chat, do you know about the spooks?” “Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. But you know what I know? They know about you. I believe that. They know about you, bro. That’s all I’m going to say before they fucking come for me. I can’t lose my platform so we’ve got to move on topics. But they know about you.”

Rasmr says his viral freestyle wasn't rage bait "Even the people defending me are saying, he's just rage baiting, why are you pissed? Bro, I wasn't even rage baiting. I was 2 hours deep into a stream, fucking around with my chat. I didn't even clip it. I'm literally just doing shit, and it gets reposted everywhere." "By the way, I hate the freestyle. I think it's terrible. I'm not even joking, I can't watch it. But I genuinely think the reason people keep reposting it is because they like it. If something isn't catchy, why would you repost it? Like if it's stuck in your head, there's something there. If it was straight cheeks, you wouldn't keep reposting it."

Solanadoomer1 reveals he paid a hacker 50 ETH to brute force his forgotten ICO wallet "I bought the ETH ICO and completely forgot about it until 2022. I saw someone tweet about it and thought, shit, I think I bought that. Went back through my Coinbase history and sure enough, I spent $60 and received 200 ETH. I dug out this old laptop that barely worked, plugged it in, searched wallet, and the file popped up. But I had no idea what the password was." "I found a guy who brute forces wallets and sent him a list of passwords I thought it could be. 5 minutes later he messages me, it's unlocked. He took about 25%, which was fine because I wasn't getting it unlocked myself, and I had 150 ETH in my wallet. I took a little out, paid some taxes, then put the rest into Solana NFTs and lost basically everything."

Solanadoomer1 reveals he risked his house deposit before making $25,000,000 in a year "My saving grace was that I saved about $30k in T-bills. I thought maybe this would be a down payment for a house for me and my fiancée. Then the fresh bull market starts kicking off in 2023 and I'm like, babe, I think I'm going to put this money into crypto. She's like, are you serious? You've been doing this for so long and you've made nothing." "I threw it in, ran it up pretty quick, full ported GOAT and made almost $3M at the end of 2024. Rolled that into AI16z, hit TRUMP for like $8M, then round tripped about $7M in the next 2 months buying crap after the market topped. Hit those ETH perp trades over the summer and finished the year up about $8M." "This year I hit the big Zcash trades. I'm up about $17M publicly on Hyperliquid and another $8M or $9M in my brokerage accounts, so close to $25M on the year. I have no formal trading or finance background. But I do have a degree in atmospheric science."

Threadguy compares his trading style to rowing a burning kayak with 9 holes in it down a white water river "My trading style is basically I'm on a kayak on a white water river that is fucking nasty and aggressive. There's like 10 holes in the kayak. It's basically a wood board in this white typhoon. This boat should have been capsized hours ago but I am such an elite rower that I'm flying down this river despite being on a piece of plastic in the middle of a waterfall." "The boat is burning. I'm pouring gasoline on it. There's 9 holes. And I'm still floating. Everyone's looking over the railing like how is he still alive. When you really sit down and look at my perps portfolio you're like what the fuck is he doing. And how is this green."

Rasmr explains why public wallets completely changed what motivates him to trade "Honestly when I'm trading now I'm thinking about the content. I'm thinking about what my audience might think. If I'm up a certain amount but I want to be up a clean 6 figures, I'll hold something a little bit longer. That can actually be a bad habit. But ultimately that is why I'm trading. I'm trading to bolster my personal brand." "Now that wallets are becoming more and more public, it's becoming a driving force of the motivation behind why I want to hit a trade. If you're able to call your shots publicly, place your stakes where you think they will lie, and then being proven correct. That's basically all I'm trying to do right now."

Rasmr explains why being rich young is a million times out of a million worth it and you need to stop thinking about it "I had to go against all the advice, all the conventional wisdom, I had to go against the grain. I was doing crypto meme coin videos and trading where I had friends that were doing corporate jobs and ascending in the corporate ranking. And if you're in chat and you're in that same position I was a couple years ago, thinking is it actually worth it, I just want you to stop talking and stop thinking because the answer a million times out of a million is fucking yes. It's way worth it, it's actually lit, it's way sicker than you could think." "The younger you are, the more risk you'll be able to tolerate and the more risk you'll be able to actually justify to your parents and those around you. Whatever risk you are facing, you need to have 10x bigger balls and take bigger risks than you could even imagine. I grinded trading for years before I ever got good. Some guys like Cupsey or Insentos come into trading and they're fucking good right away. But once you get good, it's like you're floating bro. You're just fucking floating. So for everybody watching, if you're doing this shit, just keep doing it until you get good. It's worth it."

Rasmr explains why having copy traders is ruining his trading "The copy traders literally ruin my trading. It makes trading 20x harder. If I want to buy $20k of a coin and it's a lower market cap, I put $5k and that first $5k slips the chart to smithereens. Then I want to DCA later and my entry's already destroyed. How am I supposed to build a position?" "It gets even worse on the sell side. If I sell $5k of my $50k position, everyone sees it, they all panic sell, and the coin dumps. How is that good for me? Where's the advantage? I'm doing it to build my fomo aura, but it unequivocally makes trading more difficult."

Threadguy explains why fake luxury goods prove crypto is the only real ownership left "You walk around New York City and there's infinite fake Goyard everywhere, bags, backpacks, purses, wallets, mass produced unlike anything you've ever seen. And it's gotten so bad that if I see somebody with a Goyard bag, I automatically think why are you wearing a fake bag, not oh that thing is fresh. It's the same thing that happened with Mutant Apes when every scam bot fishing account was wearing a Mutant Ape pfp. You started associating the whole thing with scammer even though the real ones were a hundred grand." "And so you ask yourself what's the trade. And to me the trade is longing digital assets and things that are unvampable. It puts a serious premium on verifiable ownership assets, i.e. CryptoPunks. The real bags don't become more valuable, you just assume they're all fake, and there's nothing you can really do about it."

Threadguy on the moment he realized Zcash privacy actually works "I was DMing one of the guys from the Hyperdash team and I was like, can you find this wallet? He's like yeah, give me a PNL and I can find anyone's wallet. I'm like all right, can you find this? He's like, yo, that's shielded Zcash, I can't. I was like, wait, it really works like that? He's like brother, it's in the shielded pool. And I was like, wait, it actually works. And he's like, yeah, of course it works. And I'm like, raise my fucking targets. I didn't realize it actually worked. I didn't realize you could just shield it like that."

Mando explains why the VC favored coins crushed everything this cycle "What everyone thinks is the consensus rally, whether it's a meme or an L1, ends up either getting vamped or something else outperforms it. All the institutional coins, all the ones the liquid funds and VC funds bought during the bear, those have been the winners. Zcash, HYPE, VVV, even NEAR, every single one of those VC favored coins has been the best movers over the last two months." "PUMP will fall at the faintest whiff of something going wrong, whereas these other guys clearly have a bid. Institutions have come back and decided these are the coins they want to own, and they're barely dipping 10% while everything else dips 30-40%. I wouldn't fade that, those are going to be the strongest coins."

Mando reveals sitting in Solana doing nothing was his best trade last cycle "I sat in Solana from $30 to about $140 in decent size, put $1.5M in staked on Kraken and just came back to it. It was actually one of my best trades ever, doing literally nothing. It just sat there, I didn't even think about it." "The rest of the money I put into tons of different things, levered JLP, some memecoins, tried to do crazy stuff with it, but the risk reward was just so much better to just be in Solana. And the most money you will hear made this cycle, I'm telling you, will be from people who own Zcash. There will be crazy stories, I've seen mid 8 figures already."

Threadguy explains why not being in the main thing is the worst feeling in trading "I didn't buy Meta because the money I would have spent on Meta I spent on VVV, VVV was up more, but the entire timeline was talking about Meta and I wasn't in it. I had this eternal pain in my soul that I was not in the main thing. Not being in the main thing is insufferable." "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't just be in the best coin all of the time. You could and should always be in it, and unless you have a long-term time horizon, you should sell every time your coin is no longer the coolest coin. Arthur Hayes told us this, why would you be in a coin that has no motion. I watch Based16z and he's always in the best coin, always in it for 48 hours, and then he's just done."

Mando explains why Zcash is the only coin left where anyone has delusional price targets "Zcash is the only coin of all the coins I mentioned where people don't talk about it like oh this can go 2x. With NEAR it's like this can go to $8 or $10, with VVV it's like maybe a 3-4x. Zcash, people are like this can do a 20x. I like that as the coin of the cycle because no one else is saying multiples like that for any other coin." "Even now with HYPE people say $200. The only real one legitimately if you're going to be in it for the whole cycle right now is Zcash."

Threadguy explains why nobody is giving altcoins the respect they deserve for how high they can go "I think the targets for Hyperliquid, Zcash, Venice, Lighter, maybe Pump, are unfathomably high. They're ridiculously high and I don't think anyone really appreciates how crazy it can get because again it's a cycle where there's only a few things to buy and the few things to buy are really good." "It's been 4 or 5 years since a non-meme altcoin has rerated what you thought was possible for how high a coin can go. 2024 it was only the memes. 2023 nothing. 2022 NFTs. You have to go back to 2021 and the L1 trade to find the last time an altcoin that isn't a meme coin just completely shattered expectations. There's way too many HYPE to $150 takes and not nearly enough HYPE to $500. Way too much Venice to $40 and not enough Venice to $200. I don't think these alts are getting respected enough for how stupidly high they can go."